I had the original Vivosmart and loved it. After I lost it on a hike, I tried several other newcomers throughout the years. The Microsoft Band 1&2, Vivosmart HR, Nike FuelBand, and a FitBit. All failed to fulfill all of my needs.

A very easy to use device with plenty of information both from the tracker itself or the app. It detects your activity automatically without presetting. I returned my Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro. This one is a lot better than the Gear.

You can find this a whole lot cheaper elseswhere!

Bought for my wife and she lo as it. It fits her wrist well and it is quite accurate. The size is just big enough to make the screen usable for texts and to see valuable information

Wish I had brought a Fitbit. Thought this would be better, but boy was I wrong. Does not count floors anywhere near accurately. I wake up and shower and it says I reached my intensity minute target for the week. Never buying Garmin again

Acted beyond expectation. Hardly notice that it is sitting there and doing its job. The Garmin app is good and has given me some news about me, a little fun. If you sync to their site too, there are more ways to visualize data. But, I used it around the clock.

The Garmin vivosmart 3 has a lot of features. However, I am finding that sometimes it doesn't always respond as expected. Lifting and turning your wrist to see the time doesn't always work. Sometimes I have to give it a few hard taps to light up.

Works as described. As usual, the stairs counter is useless and complaints about the screen being unsharp are true. Icons are rather cryptic as well. Not sure anything out there is much better though.

The Garmin vivosmart 3 is essentially a sleeker vivosmart HR with support for strength training. Unfortunately, this new strength training feature mostly disappoints us. In theory, the VS3 is supposed to quantify your reps, sets, and rest times as well as automatically recognize exercises.

Comfortable and water resistant; Thin; sleek design; Built-in wrist heart rate monitor; Smartphone notifications + control for music and VIRB action camera; Moderate price point

Strength training feature is disappointing; Does not connect with external HRM; Display is average at best

The rivalry between today's fitness bands is so fierce that they're cramming in more tech than Inspector Gadget's fedora.